How to import ID3 rating tags into iTunes

Re: How do I get all my ID3 ratings into iTunes?

I too have had this problem, so I wrote up a quick applescript. It requires the EXIFTool to be installed from here: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

Simply paste this script into Script Editor, save it to file and copy it to your Library/iTunes/Scripts folder.

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tell application "iTunes"

-- act on particular tracks or all tracks currently displayed

if selection is not {} then

set sel to selection

else

set sel to file tracks of view of front window

end if

-- loop through each selected track

repeat with aTrack in sel

set loc to aTrack's location

set prettyloc to (quoted form of POSIX path of loc) as string

set popm to do shell script ("exiftool -Popularimeter " & prettyloc & "|sed s'/^.*Rating=//g;s/ .*//g;'")

try

set trackrating to round (popm / 2.56) as number

end try

if class of trackrating is integer and trackrating > 0 then

tell aTrack

set rating to trackrating

end tell

end if

end repeat

end tell

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Thanks a lot - just successfully reimported ratings for 12000 songs...

Only modification was changing "exiftool" in the script to the complete path, in my case "/usr/local/bin/exiftool"